The best Lupe Vélez’s movies

Lupe Vélez

Lupe Vélez

18/07/1908- 13/12/1944
We present our ranking of the best Lupe Vélez’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Lupe Vélez.
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Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 24/05/1934
  • Character: The Jaguar Woman / Jane in Schnarzan Sequence / Herself
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party with so that he might use the lions in his next movie. His film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.

Kongo

Kongo
6.5/10
The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can revenge on the man who ruined his life.

That's Entertainment! III

That's Entertainment! III
7.5/10
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy
5.8/10
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

High Flyers

High Flyers
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/11/1937
  • Character: Juanita - the Maid
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.

Hollywood Without Make-Up

Hollywood Without Make-Up
7.2/10
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

The Gaucho

The Gaucho
7/10
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.

Hell Harbor

Hell Harbor
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/03/1930
  • Character: Anita Morgan
Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality.

Sailors, Beware!

Sailors, Beware!
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/09/1927
  • Character: Baroness Behr (uncredited)
A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.

Playmates

Playmates
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/12/1941
  • Character: Carmen del Toro
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.

Ladies' Day

Ladies' Day
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/04/1943
  • Character: Pepita Zorita
A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.

Wolf Song

Wolf Song
6.4/10
In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he meets Lola, a beautiful Mexican girl from a proud and rich family. They fall in love and he persuades her to elope with him. After they get married, Sam is torn between his love for Lola and his yearn for traveling.

The Girl from Mexico

The Girl from Mexico
6.4/10
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.

Where East Is East

Where East  Is East
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/05/1929
  • Character: Toyo Haynes
A Chinese wife returns to the American family she left and moves in on her daughter's (Lupe Velez) beau (Lloyd Hughes).

Laughing Boy

Laughing Boy
4.7/10
A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.

Naná

Naná
6.2/10
  • Release: 02/06/1944
  • Character: Naná
Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.

The Half Naked Truth

The Half Naked Truth
6.1/10
A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation.

Strictly Dynamite

Strictly Dynamite
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/05/1934
  • Character: Vera
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

Mexican Spitfire

Mexican Spitfire
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/01/1940
  • Character: Carmelita Lindsay
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.

Palooka

Palooka
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/01/1934
  • Character: Nina Madero
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.

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